In your impatience you have flown to learning for refuge, and it has completed your overthrow, for it has induced you to reject as non-existent all that you cannot understand.
Because your finite mind cannot search infinity, because no answer has come to all your prayers, because you see misery and cannot read its purpose, because you suffer and have not found rest, you have said there is naught but chance, and become an atheist, as many have done before you.

Is it not true ?" "Go on," she answered, bowing her head to her breast so that the long rippling hair almost hid her face.
"It seems a little odd," Geoffrey said with a short laugh, "that I, with all my imperfections heaped upon me, should presume to preach to you--but you will know best how near or how far I am from the truth.

So I want to say something.

I have lived for thirty-five years, and seen a good deal and tried to learn from it, and I know this.

In the long run, unless we of our own act put away the opportunity, the world gives us our due, which generally is not much.